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: THE CUBA PROJECT

01/24/62
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: MEMORANDUM

TOP SECRET

1B, 1C

RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
07/30/98

Reviewed by OSD, CIA and State.

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SUBIECT: Tasks Assigned to CIA in General Lansdale's Program

Review

A. TASKS
Part Vv. pp. 5-8, of General Lansdale's program review of
the Cuba Project, dated 16 January 1962, assigns 32 specific tasks
to elements of the U.S. Government. Of these, 16 are assigned
ta CLA solely or jointly, The tasks have been reviewed by this
Agency, and it has been determined that substantially all reporting

and planning deadlines can be met. Work on all tasks, with and”

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without assigned dates for completion, is in progress. The

following detailed observations are keyed to General Lansdale's

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l. Task l, p.5, The intelligence community is hard at

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work on NIE 85-62 and is attempting to meet the deadline of
? February. As was agreed ina conversation of 23 January 1962
with General Lansdale, a short extension may be necessary.

2. Task 2,.p.3. The Cpa-Lorcka Interrogation Center in

Florida will be in operation on 15 February -- the deadline date,

3.-Task 3. p.5 The survey is in progress and will be

completed on the stipulated date On the basis of the information

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obtained the possibility of establishiag additional interrogation
points will be determined.

4. Task 4, p.5. An operational assessment of the stay-
behind net in Cuba will be completed and reported by the deadline
of iS > Pepruary: Because communication with singleton agents is
by sw, . not w/T, it is unlikely that assessment can be completed

by the date stipulated; an extension to 28 February may be

necessary, although every effort is being made to complete the work

before that dat An intensive program aimed at the acquisition

of third country’ assets through the cooperation of diaigan.

is also under way, particularly in Spain: Belgium of vance,

Uruguay, and Costa Rica.) /A progress report on the status of

this program will be uidde’by 15 February, although this Agency
cannot be sure that the cooperation of all intended participants will
have been obtained by that date. CIA has also taken the follow.
ing additional steps in respect to Task 4.

a. A cable has been sent to field stations to give added
impetus to the search for assets and the development of both
unilateral and joint operations. Progress reports have been
required by | March.

bo A survey of the Cuban Chinese community and of

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operational access to it is under way! Target date: end of

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c. An assessment of more than one hundred Persons to

determine their suitability for return to Cuba as agent¢in

the guise of student alse being conducted. Target date:

end of February.

5. Task 5, p.5. The l February deadline will be met, and
by that date we shall also have begun the search for suitable inter-
™Mediaries, Analysis to date has not uncovered a top-level official
of the Cuban regime whose Personal characteristics indicate he
would accept recruitment or agree to defection now. Although
some targets of opportunity will appear outside Cuba,
will necessarily be based upon an appeal made inside the island by

intermediaries selected from the ranks offjournalists, foreign

officials, international businessmen, foreign lawyers, crime

syndicates, internatiorial detectives and foreign police officials.
Additimally, plans for the defection of lower-level Cuban officials

abroad have been completed, and the search for targets and access

abroad is under way’)

6. Task 6, p.5. By the assigned date we shall complete

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cover and deception Operations by that data.

7. Task 7, p.5.- Byl February CIA will submit an opera.
(| tional schedule for the initiation of an Organized resistance move.
-/\ ment inside Cuba. The schedule will include the localities Selected

and the assessment of Some candidates. _ A fall aSsessment will

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be completed in accordance with the schedule listed in Para. 4,
above, in conformance with Task 4, ff should be noted, | however,
that this operational schedule (like the schedules éalled for in
Tasks 10, 26, and 30) will necessarily be tentative and subject

to later revision as the number of assets inside Cuba increases _

and as the flow of intelligence is augmented, - Moreover, the

8. Task 10, p.5. CLA has on hand both Propaganda and
political action assets in the Caribbean area and elsewhere in
Latin America. It is planned to use those assets both to support
the Project inside Cuba and to generate and mobilize public and |
official opinion against Castro outside Cuba, The Opérational

Schedule will be submitted On the stated date,

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9. Task 18, p. 6) Discussions with the @pPropriate AFL-CIO.
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officials have been donducted and a feport of developments me)

submitted by 15 February.

aw 10. Task 2l, p. 7./ Plans for inducing the failure of crops

will be submitted by 15 February. These plang will envisage both
the use of controlled assets who can be infiltrated and exfiltrated
and the provision of encouragement and guidance to the resistance,
so that it will undertake acts of sabotage, some of which are to:

| be directed against crops, particularly rice.

method er disrupting the supply of Cuban nickel to the USSR could,

if approved, include (1) the sinking of Cuban or Bloc ships by open
attack; (2) the use of "frogman" or UDT tactics in harbors for the
Same purpose, (3) the employment of torpedos and mines toward

this end; and (4) the sabotaging of primary or secondary sources

of Cuban nickel, such as the Nicaro and Moa plants. CIA now has n :
proven internal assets capable of carrying out any of these actions.
The Agency does have external assets capable of undertaking action

(2) and (3). It also has an external group capable of undertaking

(4) upon the completion of specialized trainin All studies,

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including a plan for using overt or covert“Mheans to prevent re-

pore ; institution of thé’ Canad n'supply to the USSR, will be submitted CLK

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" asSigning to the economic action group, ch#ired by the Department

of State, responsibility for overt action designed to deny»Cay

| nickel to the USSR.

aa 12, Task 26, p.7. Together with Tasks 27 and 28, Task 26

we constitutes an outline of a plan for a psychological warfare operation.
/ ; These tasks are so closely interrelated that CIA proposes to submit
. by 15 February a single plan dealing with all three tasks.

13. Task 27, p.7. See preceding paragraph.

; sont lf. Task 28, p.7. See paragraph 12,

15. Task 30, p.7. By 15 February CIA will submit an opera-

“etscneteeconnnnnsonninininntnncitin,
tional schedule dedling witf/the sabotage of (1) shipping in Cuban 2

waters and harbors, (2) Cuban transport facilities, (3) communications

facilities, (4) equipment for the refining of petroleum, (5) facili-

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ties for producing and distributing power, (6) industry, (7) food
aupplies, (8) key military and police installations and materiel
The schedule will also include the disruption of military and police ‘

communi eons and harassment of military and police training and

{ pérsonnel. inten erento

a 16 Task 31, p.8. This deadline will be met.

S. ADDITIONAL UNDERTARINGS
The following commients are keyed to Sections D throush ™,

Part 1V (pp. 3 and 4) of the program review.
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Section D, p.3.

Six men,

to form the initial nucleus,

have been assessed in depth. Further assessment of candidates

inside and outside Cuba is

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Selected as suitable can

Of resistance because

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of (1) the Presence

there of Broups among which there is Patent or incipient unrest,

(2) the Presence of Strategic and tactical targets for use or deacti.

vation,

In order of Priority, the fifteen centers are Havana, Cam

Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Matanzas,

Escambray Mountains, Holguin, Siantago de Cubs

’ Baracoa, Pinar del Rio, Manzanillo, and Colon

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and (3) Proximity to Potential unconventional Warfare areas.

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